How to click on an item inside a RecyclerView in Espresso

Question

I have a RecyclerView (R.id.recyclerView) where each row has an image (R.id.row_image) and a TextView. I want to click on the image in the first row.
I\'ve tried to use

Answer 1

I have found two ways:

1. Assuming you have a textview with id "R.id.description" for each item in the RecyclerView. You can do this to match a specific child:

onView(allOf(withId(R.id.place_description),withText("what"))).perform(click());

2. A tutorial from Android Testing Codelab https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-testing/#0

`

public Matcher withItemText(final String itemText) {
        checkArgument(!TextUtils.isEmpty(itemText),"cannot be null");
        return new TypeSafeMatcher() {
            @Override
            protected boolean matchesSafely(View item) {
                return allOf(isDescendantOfA(isAssignableFrom(RecyclerView.class)),withText(itemText)).matches(item);
            }

            @Override
            public void describeTo(Description description) {
                description.appendText("is descendant of a RecyclerView with text" + itemText);
            }
        };
    }

`

And then, do this:

onView(withItemText("what")).perform(click());